Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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along time
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tomb, had been certain, that the ſquare of the ſide ſubtending
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the right angle in a rectangle triangle, was equal to the ſquare of
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the other two ſides: and the certainty of the concluſion
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ced not a little to the inveſtigating of the demonſtration,
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derſtanding me alwayes to mean in demonſtrative Sciences. </
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what ever was the method of
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Ariſtotle,
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and whether his arguing
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preceded ſenſe
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à poſteriori,
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or the contrary; it ſufficeth that
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preferreth (as hath been oft ſaid) ſenſible
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periments before all diſcourſes; beſides, as to the Arugments
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à
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to my purpoſed matter, I ſay, that the things in our times
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covered in the Heavens, are, and have been ſuch, that they may
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give abſolute ſatisfaction to all Philoſophers; foraſmuch as in
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the particular bodies, and in the univerſal expanſion of Heaven,
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there have been, and are continually, ſeen juſt ſuch accidents as
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we call generations and corruptions, being that excellent
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ſtronomers have obſerved many Comets generated and diſſolved
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in parts higher than the Lunar Orb, beſides the two new Stars,
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Anuo
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1572, and
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Anno
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1604, without contradiction much higher
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than all the Planets; and in the face of the Sun it ſelf, by help
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of the
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Teleſcope,
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certain denſe and obſcure ſubſtances, in
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blance very like to the foggs about the Earth, are ſeen to be
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produced and diſſolved; and many of theſe are ſo vaſt, that
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they far exceed not only the Mediterranian Streight, but all
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Affrica
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Aſia
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had ſeen theſe things,
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what think you he would have ſaid, and done
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Simplicius?
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The certaixty of
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the concluſion
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peth by areſolutive
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method to ſind the
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demonstration.
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Pythagoras
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offered
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an Hecatomb for
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a Geometrical
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monſtration which
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New ſtars
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vered in Heaven.
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Spots generate and
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of the Sun.
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Solar spots are
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would have done or ſaid,
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that was the great Maſter of all the Sciences, but yet I know in
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part, what his Sectators do and ſay, and ought to do and ſay,
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unleſſe they would deprive themſelves of their guide, leader, and
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Prince in Philoſophy. </
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Aſtronomers, who would make them Cœleſtial, convinced by
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yea, and overcome with their own weapons, I
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mean by way of Paralaxes and Calculations, every way tryed,
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concluding at the laſt in favour of
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Aristotle,
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that they are all
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their foundation, have theſe Novelliſts any thing more
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Aſtronomers
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futed by
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Simplicius,
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this modern Author,
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what ſaith he to the new Stars,
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Anno
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1572, and 1604, and to </
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